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If Trump sues he is putting at risk a resource that is viewed as a National Treasure! It’s not a business - it’s a much treasured institution of the British public.
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If Trump sues he is putting at risk a resource that is viewed as a National Treasure! It’s not a business - it’s a much treasured institution of the British public.
The British public pay for the BBC with their license fee! Not big business - not corporates - not billionaires - not political parties. Just every man and woman who has a TV at home. If BBC make a mistake they should apologise - no question. But if Trump sues it is the British public he is suing.
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The British public pay for the BBC with their license fee! Not big business - not corporates - not billionaires - not political parties. Just every man and woman who has a TV at home. If BBC make a mistake they should apologise - no question. But if Trump sues it is the British public he is suing.
This issue with the BBC - WHY - is this issue from 2024 surfacing now?? Who is at at the back of it? What is their motive? Why can’t we know. The British people - potential tourists to the US are the funders of the CORPORATION - he is having a go at us all!!
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This issue with the BBC - WHY - is this issue from 2024 surfacing now?? Who is at at the back of it? What is their motive? Why can’t we know. The British people - potential tourists to the US are the funders of the CORPORATION - he is having a go at us all!!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... Absolutely agree!!! Shareholder/boardroom greed since privatisation of utilities/water as well as selling off social housing have made UK households poorer . Time to turn this around. Taxpayers still funding greedy company payrolls through benefits system.
Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens leader
Zack Polanski calls mass privatisation a ‘failed experiment’ as report finds it has cost UK households £250 a year more
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:55 AM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... Absolutely agree!!! Shareholder/boardroom greed since privatisation of utilities/water as well as selling off social housing have made UK households poorer . Time to turn this around. Taxpayers still funding greedy company payrolls through benefits system.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
True legacy of Cameron/Osborne ideology led austerity and 14 years of absolute total self interest and inept inadequate government. Children in poverty - education starved of funds - Foodbanks proliferating!! They’re all right!!!We Were NOT All in it Together!!
True legacy of Cameron/Osborne ideology led austerity and 14 years of absolute total self interest and inept inadequate government. Children in poverty - education starved of funds - Foodbanks proliferating!! They’re all right!!!We Were NOT All in it Together!!
Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown
Homes without heating, bedrooms without beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisive, says former prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
True legacy of Cameron/Osborne ideology led austerity and 14 years of absolute total self interest and inept inadequate government. Children in poverty - education starved of funds - Foodbanks proliferating!! They’re all right!!!We Were NOT All in it Together!!
True legacy of Cameron/Osborne ideology led austerity and 14 years of absolute total self interest and inept inadequate government. Children in poverty - education starved of funds - Foodbanks proliferating!! They’re all right!!!We Were NOT All in it Together!!
A foreign billionaire - a Trump cohort- calling for overthrow of our government!! Tactics that US MAGA’s decry from Russia etc. The US wealthy and powerful interfering in Great British democracy!! How would St George and the “flag protectors” react to that!! Oh! It’s them calling for it! Hypocrisy!
September 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
A foreign billionaire - a Trump cohort- calling for overthrow of our government!! Tactics that US MAGA’s decry from Russia etc. The US wealthy and powerful interfering in Great British democracy!! How would St George and the “flag protectors” react to that!! Oh! It’s them calling for it! Hypocrisy!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... The Treasury only sees London when it comes to spending money!! Liverpool Manchester Leeds Newcastle Hull don’t exist as far as their mindset and millions are concerned. Levelling up!! What a joke - what a first class con!!
Want to know what’s going right in Britain? Come to the capital, look at the Elizabeth line railway | Jonn Elledge
It’s a ‘can-do’ object lesson for the Treasury. And imagine what such ambition could do for the fortunes of Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds, says author Jonn Elledge
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August 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... The Treasury only sees London when it comes to spending money!! Liverpool Manchester Leeds Newcastle Hull don’t exist as far as their mindset and millions are concerned. Levelling up!! What a joke - what a first class con!!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... Laughable!
Rupert Lowe reports charity rowers to coastguard as possible ‘illegal migrants’
MP agrees to donate £1,000 to crew’s fundraising effort after alerting authorities to their boat off Great Yarmouth
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August 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... Laughable!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... Disgraceful. MP salary and then this!!
UK homelessness minister resigns after tenant eviction claims
Rushanara Ali was accused of hypocrisy after claims she removed tenants before rent rise of almost £700 a month
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August 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... Disgraceful. MP salary and then this!!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025.... England does extend further than Birmingham to the North. Perhaps southern academics missed the geography lectures. The North is continually being deprived by London and South East. What is this PM doing? Bring in Andy Burnham.
Dismay as north of England universities miss out on share of £54m talent fund
Exclusive: MP presses minister for explanation as thinktank says omission undermines innovation in the north
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August 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025.... England does extend further than Birmingham to the North. Perhaps southern academics missed the geography lectures. The North is continually being deprived by London and South East. What is this PM doing? Bring in Andy Burnham.
This…. and the utilities water companies et al - all of it and for what!!All our - the taxpayers assets sold- and we the taxpayers are the poorer and still being robbed by energy suppliers water companies and greedy landlords in”charging high rents for substandard properties. Great Legacy Thatcher!!
August 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This…. and the utilities water companies et al - all of it and for what!!All our - the taxpayers assets sold- and we the taxpayers are the poorer and still being robbed by energy suppliers water companies and greedy landlords in”charging high rents for substandard properties. Great Legacy Thatcher!!
www.theguardian.com/society/2025.... Dreadful woman!!
Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’
Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’
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August 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
www.theguardian.com/society/2025.... Dreadful woman!!
Why bother getting anyone else ON @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social just get Reform on to speak as tonight no-one else allowed to finish. Reform given endless minutes other speaker minimal time and constant interruptions. Pathetic from a supposed prime news program. Used to be! Not anymore!
July 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Why bother getting anyone else ON @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social just get Reform on to speak as tonight no-one else allowed to finish. Reform given endless minutes other speaker minimal time and constant interruptions. Pathetic from a supposed prime news program. Used to be! Not anymore!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025.... Really!!
UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house
Marianne Sorrell, a retired teacher from Somerset, says she is ‘very traumatised’ after arrest at Cardiff rally
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July 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025.... Really!!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... Reality check for those who think Reform is the answer!! 19 year old in charge - and residents cash spent how? Education- special needs children- disability issues?? No!!!
Reform councillors criticised after voting to spend £150,000 on political advisers
Plan was put forward by 19-year-old leader of Warwickshire council George Finch who also lobbied to remove Pride flag
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July 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... Reality check for those who think Reform is the answer!! 19 year old in charge - and residents cash spent how? Education- special needs children- disability issues?? No!!!
👏👏👏Rounds of applause to Highways Agency/Tewkesbury Council. Designer outlet - 2nd Day of opening. An already congested A46 coming from Stow made worse now! 60mph - lucky to get 10mph from Teddington Hands. Traffic queues now the norm on this stretch of A46 a bad situation much worse now.
July 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
👏👏👏Rounds of applause to Highways Agency/Tewkesbury Council. Designer outlet - 2nd Day of opening. An already congested A46 coming from Stow made worse now! 60mph - lucky to get 10mph from Teddington Hands. Traffic queues now the norm on this stretch of A46 a bad situation much worse now.
